Fruit-jar holder.



G. T. BAGULEY.

FRUIT JAR HOLDER.

rum-r101: FILED NOV. 19, 1909.

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OrEORG-E T. BAGULEY, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF. ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM J. LYTLE, 0F TORONTO, CANADA.

FRUIT-JAR HOLDER.

Application filed. November Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

19, 1909. Serial No. 528,887.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. BAoULnY, of the city of Toronto, Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Jar Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices, for use when canning fruit, by means of which the jars may be conveniently held and handled without danger of burning or scalding the hands and my object is to devise a holder which may be used to handle the jars above or in conjunction with a drip-pan.

I attain my object by providing a metal clamping band with handles by means of which it may be clamped about a jar and by providing the band with a plurality of spring fingers adapted to releasably engage the rim of a drip-pan substantially as here inafter more specifically described.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my in vention showing a fruit jar and drip-pan engaged thereby. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device in the position in which it will usually be employed in lifting a fruit jar alone. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device as constructed to enable it to be fitted to different diameters of jars.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding figures in the different drawings.

A is a clamping band preferably formed of spring steel. To each end of this band is secured a handle B preferably by means of a screw a. This band carries the spring fingers O which are preferably separate pieces riveted to the band. These fingers have hooks 6 formed on their free ends, which hooks may engage the rim of a drippan D, as shown in Fig. 1.

The device is used as follows: When it is desired to lift a jar the band is slipped over the jar and the handles brought together when the clamping band will firmly engage the ar. Hot ars may thus be conveniently and quickly handled. When a jar is being filled with hot fruit it is usually necessary to employ a drip-pan of some kind as the jars should be filled to overflowing. If a jar be placed in the drip=pan, both the jar and the drip-pan may be quickly engaged by the clamping band and the spring fingers shown in Fig. 1, and lifted and handled as though they were a unit. After releasing I the fingers from the drip-pan the jar is readily lifted from the drip-pan by again engaging it with the clamping band. The drip-pan may then be used with a fresh jar.

While different sizes of holders may be employed for different sized jars, yet the device may readily be made adjustable so that one holder may fit all the sizes of jars ordinarily employed. One such construction is shown in Fig. 3. The clamping band is divided into two parts E and F. The part F has a series of corrugations or indentations 0 formed therein. One or two similar corrugations (Z are formed at the end of the part E. A slide Gr holds together the overlapping plain parts of the parts E and F of the band. A larger slide H engages the corrugated parts of the band. By slipping back thisslide H the corrugations c and d may be disengaged and re'elngaged in a fresh position after which they are held as adjusted by slipping the slide H back to its normal position. Of course, other devices than that shown might be employed for the purpose of adjusting this band.

From the above description it will be seen that I have devised a construction which will satisfactorily accomplish the objects of my invention.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. I11 a jar holder, the combination of a clamping band; handles secured to the ends of said clamping band whereby it -may be contracted around a jar or similar article and support the same; spring fingers secured to and depending from said clamping band and adapted to releasably engage with the side of a pan or similar article and support the same beneath a jar or other article engaged by and held in said clamping band.

2. In a jar holder the combination of a divided clamping band, handles secured to the ends of said band whereby it may be held and also contracted around a jar or similar article, and a plurality of fingers secured to said band and adapted to supporta pan or other article and to be engaged with anddisengaged from the said pan by the action of contracting or expanding the band.

3. In a jar holder the combination of a divided clamping band; handles secured to the ends of said band whereby it may be held and also contracted around a jar or simiiai articie', meme for adjusting the 1 A Dated at Tbl'dfitd; this 11th day of Novl; length of said band, and a plurality of 1909. fingers secured to said band adapted to sup-' port a drip pan or similar article and to be i GEORGE BAGULEY' 5 engaged With and disengaged from the edge Signed in the presence of of said drip pan by the action of contracting J. EDW. MAYBEE,

or expanding. the divided band. I JOHN G. RIDOUT. 

